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Janice M Juraska

Professor Emerita

Research Interests

  • neuroanatomical plasticity, hormones, development, cognition

Research Description

My students and I examine hormonal influences on neuronal structure. The emphasis is on cognitive parts of the rat brain, such as the cerebral cortex, corpus callosum and hippocampus, and on cognitive behavior. Our current projects include the neural and behavioral changes during adolescence and puberty and the effects of endocrine disruptors (eg, BPA) during early development and during adolescence.

I am not accepting more students because I will be retiring in the summer of 2024.

 

Education

  • Ph.D. from the University of Colorado
  • M.A. University of Illinois
  • B.A. Lawrence University

Additional Campus Affiliations

Professor Emerita, Psychology

Recent Publications

Brinks, A. S., Carrica, L. K., Tagler, D. J., Gulley, J. M., & Juraska, J. M. (Accepted/In press). Timing of Methamphetamine Exposure during Adolescence Differentially Influences Parvalbumin and Perineuronal Net Immunoreactivity in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex of Female, but Not Male, Rats. Developmental Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1159/000538608

Juraska, J. M. (2024). The last stage of development: The restructuring and plasticity of the cortex during adolescence especially at puberty. Developmental psychobiology, 66(2), Article e22468. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.22468

Riesgo, V. R., Sellinger, E. P., Brinks, A. S., Juraska, J. M., & Willing, J. (2024). Effects of maternal LPS and developmental exposure to an environmentally relevant phthalate mixture on neuron number in the rat medial prefrontal cortex. Neurotoxicology and Teratology, 104, Article 107370. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ntt.2024.107370

Drzewiecki, C. M., Brinks, A. S., Sellinger, E. P., Doshi, A. D., Koh, J. Y., & Juraska, J. M. (2023). Brief postnatal exposure to bisphenol A affects apoptosis and gene expression in the medial prefrontal cortex and social behavior in rats with sex specificity. NeuroToxicology, 94, 126-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuro.2022.11.011

Sellinger, E. P., Brinks, A. S., Javeri, R. R., Theurer, S. L., Wang, R., & Juraska, J. M. (2023). Region- and age-specific effects of perinatal phthalate exposure on developmental cell death and adult anatomy of dorsal and ventral hippocampus and associated cognitive behaviors. Neurotoxicology and Teratology, 99, Article 107288. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ntt.2023.107288

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